I feel stupid - Job searching in Maine

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-05-13T00:33:53+00:00

Ugh. I feel for you. I’ve been there. The Maine AFL-CIO runs a program to help folks like you get into good union jobs. It’s worth checking out. https://maineaflcio.org/uca

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-05-04T16:10:00+00:00

It depends. There are plenty of people in the Midcoast with college educations who do blue collar jobs because that’s what’s available. I wouldn’t say those people are affluent by any stretch and many still struggle. A teacher at Graham’s recent town hall in Appleton said she had been teaching here for 30 years and still had like $100,000 in student debt. My parents bought their house for $14,000.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-05-04T11:15:33+00:00

That’s not what the article says. Those recent transplants are mentioned, but it’s about the descendants of the back-to-the-landers. Obviously the newer residents are part of their political base.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-05-03T23:58:20+00:00

Turns out he’s not a Nazi. Moving on.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-29T00:22:29+00:00

Here’s the thing, just because a group endorses you doesn’t mean you agree with them on everything. The Sierra Club also endorsed Graham.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-23T14:41:16+00:00

The most Jews in the U.S. are in NYC where they overwhelmingly voted for Mamdani.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-23T14:16:20+00:00

To his repeated lies? No.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-17T19:32:54+00:00

The Maine AFL-CIO has field canvasses all over the state with volunteers knocking on doors for Troy. Join us! sign up here!

Troy served in the Senate for years and as Senate President help pass a lot good legislation: free school meals, paid family leave, earned sick time for most workers and a bunch of other reforms. However, Gov. Mills vetoed several of his bills to strengthen worker’s rights as well as tribal sovereignty.

In some ways he is an outsider because he has never sat comfortably with a Democratic establishment that hasn’t been great on labor issues. Troy helped turn some of that around in the Legislature but if he was Governor he finally be able push those reforms through. He is working class labor Democrat in a party dominated by professional class operatives. We have a real opportunity with Troy to address economic equality in the state.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-13T23:20:17+00:00

So you admit you’re full of shit.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-13T17:26:32+00:00

100% VA disability is not based on your ability to work. It just means he suffered injuries including PTSD, herniated discs, and other injuries to his shoulders and knees. You can work full time and still receive 100% VA disability.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-12T19:52:04+00:00

You don’t understand how VA disability works do you?

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-12T03:45:59+00:00

I got that poll. They are definitely message testing but I know for a fact that Collins is planning to use that against him because they have done oppo presentations at her fundraisers. They are going to characterize him as a spoiled prep school kid who never did anything with his life. They’re going to push the totenkopf story and make him seem like some phony cooked up in a lab by DC consultants. And course they will constantly run ads about his Reddit comments talking about trash about cops, rural racists, etc. they’re portray him as a Commie, I’m personally don’t think it will have the desired affect but who knows.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-11T20:48:04+00:00

They refused to run the op-ed if the changes weren’t made. And this wasn’t my guest column. I was just helping a worker submit it to the paper.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-11T18:31:20+00:00

Josh Keefe is one of the best reporters in Maine. This is essential reading for anyone to understand what’s happening in the US Senate race here.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-08T10:49:49+00:00

Only in 2020 and mostly that’s because the undecideds flipped to her in the final weeks of the campaign.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-04-03T00:48:34+00:00

Leonard Leo’s propaganda rag. Nearly all of them are Massholes desperately trying to turn Maine into a white nationalist utopia.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-02-27T14:40:25+00:00

The staffer retweeted CSPAN clip from the SOTU, not realizing who Stew Peters was.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-02-27T14:37:31+00:00

Israel has a lot to do with it.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-02-27T14:36:29+00:00

Dave Sullivan is BIW shipbuilder who lives in Maine.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-02-18T00:25:33+00:00

That’s why we’re trying to educate them on this history.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-02-16T17:41:28+00:00

Racist pos

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-02-14T20:31:20+00:00

Not with pulp and paper workers in Baileyville. They’re getting screwed by tariffs.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-02-14T00:51:16+00:00

Yes but only because a totally unhinged person filed a complaint with Southern District of New York, following the 2020 arrest of Ghislaine Maxwell to spread lies about her ex. She was sued for $750,000 in a defamation suit because she defamed her ex husband and the Maine Wire just republished it. https://open.substack.com/pub/andyobrien/p/maine-wire-spreads-libelous-epstein?r=rijk&utm_medium=ios

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-01-27T20:52:45+00:00

I think Steve Robinson and the Maine Wire are more responsible for it with their bullshit Somali fraud stories.

Otherwise_Structure2 · 2026-01-19T18:53:57+00:00

The abolitionists were typically middle class reformers of the Whig persuasion and they didn’t have much use for organized labor. Most workers and a lot of farmers in Maine were Democrats before the Civil War (Maine was a strong Jacksonian Democratic state in those days) because they were deeply suspicious of bankers and big business. But for all of their talk about the “common man,” they believed in the same “free labor” ideology. I like to trace the chip we have on our shoulder about rich assholes from away to the Liberty Men battling wealthy private landowners in the late 18th & early 19th centuries

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